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Title: A Global Historical GIS (GH-GIS) Project

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: The aim of this project is to unify the world of spatial representation (GIS) with the world ofsubstantive information such that the two are interwoven seamlessly. That is, information about atopic (e.g., passenger traffic on a railroad line) is joined with a shape file showing the location of thattopic (e.g., the location of the railroad line), and traced through time. Granted, not all topics lendthemselves to this sort of global representation. Some topics are rightly understood as idiographic(there is no point or little possibility in standardizing the feature). However, the topics of greatestconcern to academics, policymakers, and the lay public are usually generalizable. Thus, we haveevery reason to expect that the issues investigated in this project will include important, and relevant,features of the past -- not flotsam and jetsam.

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Authors: Nunn, Nathan; Woodberry, Robert; Gerring, John; Bol, Peter; Lewis, Ben; Guan, Wendy

Publisher: Boston University

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

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